{"id":3563,"date":"2012-10-14T20:53:51","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T00:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=3563"},"modified":"2012-10-14T20:54:09","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T00:54:09","slug":"quotes-on-the-craft-of-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=3563","title":{"rendered":"Quotes on the Craft of Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.\u00a0 \u2014 Joseph Pulitzer<\/li>\n<li>Easy reading is damn hard writing.\u00a0 \u2014 Nathaniel Hawthorne<\/li>\n<li>Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.\u00a0\u2013 Edward Albee<\/li>\n<li>The difference between the right word and almost the right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.\u00a0 \u2014 Mark Twain<\/li>\n<li>Writing has made me a better man. It has put me in contact with those fleeting moments which prove the existence. \u2014 Ishmael Reed<\/li>\n<li>Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.\u00a0\u2013 Hermann Hesse<\/li>\n<li>Words make love with one another.\u00a0\u2013 Andre Breton<\/li>\n<li>The sovereign rule:\u00a0 don\u2019t say it, write it. \u2014 James Michener<\/li>\n<li>Only a mediocre writer is always at his best.\u00a0\u2013 W. Somerset Maugham<\/li>\n<li>With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.\u00a0\u2013 James Thurber<\/li>\n<li>I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it. \u2013\u00a0Janet Flanner<\/li>\n<li>I think all writing is a disease. You can\u2019t stop it. \u2014 William Carlos Williams<\/li>\n<li>There\u2019s a great power in words, if you don\u2019t hitch too many of them together. \u2013\u00a0Josh Billings<\/li>\n<li>In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.\u00a0\u2013 Sydney Smith<\/li>\n<li>A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. \u2013\u00a0Thomas Mann<\/li>\n<li>The waste basket is the writer\u2019s best friend.\u00a0\u2013 Isaac Bashevis Singer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>(ed. \u2013 This is a repost that originally appeared in the <\/em>By George Journal<em> in July 2009 \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/cgacommunications.com\/bygeorge\/?p=124\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.) \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.\u00a0 \u2014 Joseph Pulitzer Easy reading is damn hard writing.\u00a0 \u2014 Nathaniel Hawthorne Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[23,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3563"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3566,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563\/revisions\/3566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}